Stanley Kubrick Photographs. Through a Different Lens Taschen Book

The young Kubrick’s photographic essays for Look magazine

In 1945, at just 17 years old, Stanley Kubrick became a staff photographer for Look magazine. His humanist slice-of-life features celebrate his native New York City and already reveal a burgeoning creative genius. Through a Different Lens features around 300 of his images, many previously unseen, as well as an introduction by noted photography critic Lucy Sante. This book reveals Kubrick's keen and evocative vision in a range of feature stories and images, from everyday folk at the laundromat to a day in the life of a debutant, from a trip to the circus to Columbia University.

These still photographs attest to Kubrick’s innate talent for compelling storytelling, and serve as clear indicators of how this genius would soon transition to making some of the greatest movies of all time.

The author

Lucy Sante teaches writing and the history of photography at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. She is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and the recipient of the 2010 Infinity Award for Writing from the International Center of Photography.

The contributing authors

Donald Albrecht is the Curator of Architecture and Design at the Museum of the City of New York.

Sean Corcoran is the Curator of Prints and Photographs at the Museum of the City of New York, and was previously Assistant Curator of Photographs at the George Eastman House.

Hardcover, 7.7 x 10 in., 328 pages

ISBN: 9783836595421